"Yes you do...you asked pack members why my daughter wasn't at the pack run." He quirks an eyebrow at me, a small hint of a smirk forming in the corner of his mouth.

"I just thought it odd, that as a member of the alpha family..." I start but he holds a hand out to me, cutting me off mid sentence. Mid explanation.

"Is there something going on with you two?"

Shit...novelbin

"How do you mean?"

"I think you know what I mean." His head lowers and his eyes almost pierce into my soul. Shit, he had seen more than he was letting on.

"I felt guilty..." I start to explain but he knows instantly what I am about to say is full of bullshit.

"No.."

"No?"

"No...don't lie to me Knox. It's vital that you don't like to me."

What does he want me to say, that I've entered some kind of friends with benefits agreement with his own daughter, I don't think so.

"I returned her soaked in her own blood...I just wanted to make sure she was safe, that she was healed at least." I hold his glare, not preparing to back down.

"You feel protective of her, you feel possessive?"

His words blindside me, I didn't expect him to ask me that.

"Possessive?"

"You don't want other males touching her, being anywhere near her."

"Yes, Alpha I know what possessive means. I don't know, I haven't really given it any thought." Fuck I have, it's all I have been thinking about at the borders. How the Doctor had his hands firmly around her waist, even now, knowing he would have placed he medicine on her wounds.

"She's special to me." Hector pulls me from the thoughts that were making me angry.

"All daughters are to their fathers."

"No...you'd be surprised. Trust me, I have first hand experience of how twisted some fathers can be." He sighs out, placing the glass on the desk before standing up and looking out of the window behind his desk. "Yours?"

"Kaia's actually. The children don't know this but he was a monster." He turns back to face me, remaining by the window but now turning his back on her ethereal glow of the moon.

"Really, how so?"

"If I tell you, you need to promise me that word will not reach them. Especially Josephina, she would struggle..being close to their Auntie Alora."

"You have my word."

"Kaia's father kept the existence of Alora a secret. He sent Alora away to be adopted, but informed their mother that she had died in childbirth." The sadness that enters onto his face, the crease upon his forward informs me that he speaks the truth. I'm stunned, stunned by the sick news, that someone could do such a thing to their own child.

"Why?" I swallow hard, and I thought my childhood was hard.

"You've heard the tale of the white wolf?"

"Yes."

Of course, it's one of the many fairy tales taught to us as children. Along with the tooth fairy and Santa Claus.

"And you noticed my mate's wolf's colour at the pack run."

"Yes, she was white. But I don't believe in fairy tales Alpha."

"Neither did I. Beckett knew what Kaia was, and didn't want Alora to be a positive impact in her life.."

"So he sent her away." So not only was Josie's grandfather guilty of such a cruel act, but that he did so based on a silly childhood story.

"He sent her away, lied to his mate, his daughter and his pack...all in the name of power. My children are special to me Knox, they share the bloodline of the white wolf.."

"I.." I'm not really sure what he expects me to say.

"I would do anything to protect them, especially my daughter. She has been cheated by the moon goddess, just as was her mother but for other reasons." "How so?"

"Josephina doesn't have a wolf."